"Over coffee, tears, and laughter, I spent a delightful morning stunned
at the beauty of Leigh Patel's writing and swept up in the pages of Youth Held at the Border,
a piercing analysis of how laws move under the skin and penetrate the
soul and a tragicomedic musical of young people improvising lives at the
dangerous intersection of U.S. immigration, criminalization, education,
and welfare policies."
--From the Foreword by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY

"Poignant and insightful....After reading this book it will no longer be
possible to use code words like 'undocumented' and 'illegal' to keep
these young people silenced and confined to the shadowy world of
fugitives."
--Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, Steinhardt
School of Culture, Education and Development,Executive Director,
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University

"Lisa Patel is both ethnographer and poet in telling stories of anguish
and desperation, but in the end, stories of hope and survival. All
teachers, and anyone who cares about the future of our nation, must read
this book."
--Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Massachusetts

"Patel brings into compelling focus and with love young people who are
all around us yet not wholly seen. This is an essential read for all
educators and for youth,many who will recognize themselves and their
peers in her narrative."
--Susan E. Wilcox, SEW Consulting, community and university educator, writer

Lisa (Leigh) Patel is Associate
Professor of Education at Boston College. She has been a journalist, a
teacher, and a state-level policymaker. She is co-author of Critical Literacy: Context, Research, and Praxis in the K-12 Classroom (Sage) and co-editor of ReConsructing the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol and Body
(Peter Lang Publishers). She has authored dozens of scholarly articles
and book chapters and has been a consistent voice in educational
policymaking and policy analysis over a number of years. She is also a
national board member of Education for Liberation, a long-standing
organization dedicated to transformative education for marginalized
populations. Dr. Patel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas.

This book talk/signing is sponsored by Teachers College Press and Gottesman Libraries. Introducing Leigh Patel is Dr. Monisha Bajaj,
Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia
University, who teaches in the Programs in International and Comparative
Education and advises students in the concentrations of peace
education, international humanitarian issues in education, and policy
and planning.

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accommodations including, but not limited to sign language
interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of
accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and
Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 (Voice/tty), (646)755-3144 (VP) rgf2104@tc.columbia.edu.